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See also: science-fiction, Science-fiction, Science-Fiction, and Sciencefiction

English

a cover of Rocket to the Moon, a science fiction comic book (1951)

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Alternative forms

• science-fiction

Etymology

From science +‎ fiction. First use appears c. 1851. See cite below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa??ns ?f?k??n/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sci?ence fic?tion
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

science fiction (usually uncountable, plural science fictions)

1. Fiction in which advanced technology or science is a key element.

   Synonyms: (dated) scientific romance, (dated) scientifiction, sci-fi, SF, skiffy, stf

   Hypernyms: imaginative fiction, non-mimetic fiction, SF/F/H, speculative fiction

   Hyponyms: hard science fiction, proto-science fiction, soft science fiction

   Coordinate terms: fantasy, horror

   • 1851, William Wilson, A Little Earnest Book Upon a Great Old Subject:

     Now this applies especially to Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given, interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true—thus circulating a knowledge of the Poetry of Science, clothed in a garb of the Poetry of Life.

   • 1975 April, Isaac Asimov, “How Easy to See the Future!”, in Natural History, volume 84, number 4, New York: American Museum of Natural History, →ISSN, page 92, column 2:

     Science fiction can be defined as that branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology.

2. (by extension) Technology that, while theoretically possible, is not yet practical.

   Despite decades of research, mass-market personal aircraft are still science fiction.

Antonyms

• science fact

Derived terms

• hard science fiction
• military science fiction
• science fact
• science faction
• science fantasy
• science-fictionish
• science-fictiony
• soft science fiction

Translations

fiction genre

• Afrikaans: wetenskapfiksie (af)
• Arabic: ?????? ???????? m (?ayāl ?ilmiyy)
• Azerbaijani: elmi fantastika
• Belarusian: навуко?вая фанта?стыка f (navukóvaja fantástyka), фанта?стыка f (fantástyka)
• Bulgarian: нау?чна фанта?стика f (naú?na fantástika)
• Catalan: ciència-ficció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科學幻想 / 科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科幻 (zh) (kēhuàn), 科學虛構 / 科学虚构 (kēxué xūgòu)

• Czech: science fiction f
• Dutch: sciencefiction (nl) m or f
• Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi)
• French: science-fiction (fr)
• Galician: ciencia ficción (gl) f
• Georgian: ?????????? ?????????? (samecniero pan?as?i?a)
• German: Science-Fiction (de) f
• Greek: επιστημονικ? φαντασ?α (el) f (epistimonikí fantasía)
• Hebrew: ?????? ??????????? (he) m (madá bid'yóni)
• Hungarian: tudományos fantasztikum, tudományos-fantasztikus irodalom/m?faj, sci-fi (hu)
• Icelandic: vísindaskáldskapur m
• Indonesian: fiksi ilmiah
• Irish: ficsean eolaíochta m
• Italian: fantascienza (it) f
• Japanese: SF (ja) (esuefu), 空想科学小説 (kūsō kagaku shōsetsu), サイエンスフィクション (ja) (saiensu fikushon)
• Kazakh: ?ылыми фантастика (?ylymi fantastika)
• Korean: ????(科學小說) (ko) (gwahaksoseol), ???? ?? (saieonseu piksyeon), ???? ??(空想科學小說) (gongsanggwahak soseol)
• Kyrgyz: илимий фантастика (ilimiy fantastika)
• Latin: scientia ficticia f
• Macedonian: научна фантастика f (nau?na fantastika)
• Malay: fiksyen sains
• Maori: pohewa pūtaiao, paki pohewa pūtaiao
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шинжлэх ухаан уран з?гн?л (?in?lex uxaan uran z?gn?l), шинжлэх ухааны хий бодол (?in?lex uxaany xii bodol) (China)

  Mongolian: ?????????
  ??????
  ????
  ?????? (sin?ilekü uqa?an uran ??ngnel), ?????????
  ????????
  ???
  ????? (sin?ilekü uqa?an-ü kei bodul)

• Occitan: sciéncia-ficcion f
• Persian: ???? ????? ('elmi taxayyoli)
• Polish: fantastyka naukowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: fic??o científica (pt) f
• Romanian: ?tiin??-fic?iune f, science-fiction (ro) n
• Russian: фанта?стика (ru) f (fantástika), нау?чная фанта?стика (ru) f (naú?naja fantástika)
• Scottish Gaelic: ficsean saidheans m
• Slovak: vedecká fantastika f, science fiction f
• Slovene: znanstvena fantastika f
• Spanish: ciencia ficción (es) f
• Swahili: sayansi ya kubuniwa
• Swedish: science fiction (sv)
• Tagalog: kathang-agham
• Tajik: илм?-тахайюл? (ilmi-taxayyuli)
• Thai: ???????????????????????? (th), ???????????????? (th), ???? (th)
• Turkish: bilim kurgu (tr)
• Ukrainian: науко?ва фанта?стика f (naukóva fantástyka), фанта?стика f (fantástyka)
• Uzbek: ilmiy fantastika
• Vietnamese: khoa h?c vi?n t??ng (vi), khoa h?c gi? t??ng
• Yiddish: ??????????? f (faktazye)

technology which is not yet practical

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科學幻想 / 科学幻想 (zh) (kēxué huànxiǎng), 科幻 (zh) (kēhuàn)

• Dutch: sciencefiction (nl) m or f, toekomstmuziek (nl) f or c
• Finnish: tieteiskirjallisuus (fi)
• French: science-fiction (fr) f
• German: Science-Fiction (de) f, Zukunftsmusik (de) f
• Icelandic: framtíearmúsík f
• Irish: fantaisíocht f
• Portuguese: fic??o científica (pt) f
• Russian: фанта?стика (ru) f (fantástika)
• Slovene: znanstvena fantastika f
• Turkish: bilim kurgu (tr)

Further reading

• science fiction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English science fiction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.j?ns ?fik.??n/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Syllabification: sci?ence fic?tion

Noun

science fiction n (indeclinable, abbreviation s.f. or SF)

1. (literature) science fiction (genre of fiction)

   Synonym: fantastyka naukowa

   elementy science fiction ― science fiction elements

2. (colloquial) something inconceivable, something incredible, something unbelievable

   polityczne science fiction ― political science fiction

   • 2013, “?ód? ?yje Janowiczem. To jakie? ?science fiction””, in Wprost‎^[1]:

     – To dla nas jakie? science fiction. Nie wiemy, w jakim ?wiecie ?yjemy. To jest po prostu co? nieprawdopodobnego – mówi Ewa Nadel, prezes klubu, którego zawodnikiem jest Janowicz.

     “This is unbelievable. We don't know what world we live in. This is just something inconceivable,” says Ewa Nadel, president of the club whose player is Janowicz.

Adjective

science fiction (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (literature, postpositive, relational) science fiction (genre of fiction)

   Synonym: fantastycznonaukowy

   opowiadanie science fiction ― science fiction short story

2. (postpositive) inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable

Further reading

• science fiction I in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• science fiction II in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• science fiction in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English science fiction.

Noun

science fiction

1. science fiction

   Hennes favoritgenre var science fiction

   Her favorite genre was science fiction

References

• science fiction in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• science fiction in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)